Climbing roses old and new /. written and illustrated by Graham Stuart Thomas ... ; with 8 pages of water colours, 8 pencil drawings, 16 photographs, and diagrams in the text ; with a chapter on the botany and derivation of climbing roses by Gordon D. Rowley.
Graham Stuart Thomas
Category
Books
Date
1965
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Castle Drogo, Devon
NT 3008866
Summary
Bibliographic description
203 p., plates :. ill. (some col.) ;. 22 cm. Annotations: Some pencil marginalia. With insert: Letter from the author to Basil Drewe, sent from Sunningdale Nurseries, Windlesham, Surrey, dated 8 July 1968: 'Thank you for your letter of 4th July requesting the identification of certain roses. I am very pleased you have found my writings helpful. It is difficult to identify the plants from dried up specimens but I believe yours are as follows: A. Tausendschon B. Cornelia C. probably Canina. … G. S. Thomas'. Provenance: Purchased from A. Drewe. Inscribed in pencil on upper flyleaf: 'Tausendschon The pink climbers at the S end of each herbaceous border ([?...eggedd…?]). Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's green cloth case-binding with illustrated dust jacket.
Makers and roles
Graham Stuart Thomas Gordon D. Rowley